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“I love my love with a b because she is peculiar.”

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This book delves into the intricacies of narration, examining its role and significance across different mediums and disciplines. more

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Gertrude Stein

Gertrude Stein, an American writer born on February 3, 1874, and died on July 27, 1946. She is renowned for her unique writing style and her influence on modernist literature. more

“I still preserve those relics of past sufferings and experience, like pillars of witness set up in travelling through the valve of life, to mark particular occurrences. The footsteps are obliterated now; the face of the country may be changed; but the pillar is still there, to remind me how all things were when it was reared.”

May Stills Country Past Faces Suffering Changed Particular All Things Mark Witness Preserves Footsteps Pillars Relics Valve

Author:Anne Bronte

“Everyone likes talking about himself. - Hercule Poirot”

Talking Likes Hercule Poirot

Author:Agatha Christie

“When the friendly jailer gave Socrates the poison cup to drink, the jailer said: "Try to bear lightly what needs must be." Socrates did. He faced death with a calmness and resignation that touched the hem of divinity.”

Needs Trying Said Bears Drink Cups Poison Divinity Touched Friendly Calmness Resignation Hem Jailer

Book:How to stop worrying & start living

Source: How to stop worrying & start living

“She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.”

Thinking Want Left Doubt No Doubt Sympathy Offended Envied She Left Me

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“But, God knows best, I concluded.”

Knows God Knows God Knows Best

Book:The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Source: The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

Book Reading Occupation Leisure Favourite

Book:Agnes Grey

Source: Agnes Grey

“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”

World Wonder Civilization Glory Loan Wonder Of The World

Book:Among Others

Source: Among Others

“Decide that you like college life. In your dorm you meet many nice people. Some are smarter than you. And some, you notice, are dumber than you. You will continue, unfortunately, to view the world in exactly these terms for the rest of your life.”

People World Term Views Nice College Smarter Rest Of Your Life Nice People College Life Dorms

Book:The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

Source: The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore

“The Doctor: Doctor Song, you've got that face on again. River: What face? The Doctor: The "He's hot when he's clever" face. River: This is my normal face. The Doctor: Yes it is. River: Oh, shut up. The Doctor: Not a chance.”

Faces Song Chance Normal Rivers Doctors Hot Clever Shut Up Doctor Who

Author:Steven Moffat

“Amy: I had something I wanted to tell him. Stuff always gets in the way. Canton: Stuff does that.”

Way Doe Wanted Stuff Amy

Author:Steven Moffat

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